The European Union gave a damning assessment of the last general elections in the country. This and four other stories we tracked dominated public discourse last...
Female participation in the politics and governance of Nigeria has been way down below average since the country’s transition to representative democracy in 1999. Nigerian women...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will begin the review of the 2023 general election in July. The INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter...
The African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has made available a summary of his party’s election campaign costs. He also charged the other presidential...
The Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council has insisted that its candidate, Peter Obi, was rigged out of the recently-concluded 2023 presidential elections. Akin Osuntokun, Director General...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of this year’s general elections in Nigeria. The president, according to a statement issued by his Special...
The First Lady of Anambra State, Nonye Soludo, on Friday, described the performance of women in the last general elections in Nigeria as unsatisfactory. In a...
The 2023 general elections may have come and gone, but its echoes keep reverberating and refusing to go away, just as issues thrown up by the...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday, urged politicians to look beyond the outcome of the 2023 general elections and work for the...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday the 2023 General Elections has demonstrated the power of the Nigerian electorates. This was contained in a statement issued by...
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CRYSTAL balls will not be necessary in our march into Nigeria’s tomorrow. It will be bumpy in the event that the third term of the All...
The prevalence of the comic spirit is one of those distinctive features of Nigerian life and society – one of those things that make us who...
As the 2023 election cycle nears conclusion with the upcoming gubernatorial and house of assembly elections, the usual intrigues and politicking that often characterize the composition...
These top 10 stories across the nation’s newspapers might interest you. 1. 2023 ELECTION: Myth of political structures has been destroyed —Falana Legal luminary, Femi Falana,...
After the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, now heavily disputed, Nigeria goes to the polls again on March 18, 2023 to elect Governors and...
Legal luminary, Femi Falana, has described the February 25 election as a manifestation of the destruction of political structures bandied around by the established political parties...
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, on Monday evening admitted that last month’s presidential and parliamentary elections were not “perfect.” The Independent National...
ELECTIONS are combining with other factors to destroy Nigeria’s democracy. And the country itself. The signs are writ large though we play the ostrich. Elsewhere, especially...
A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), FixPolitics, on Thursday, faulted the conduct of last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday dedicated the victory of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the February 25 election to Nigerians. The APC in...
In the wake of Bola Tinubu’s victory at the presidential election, the opposition parties have been urged to seek legal redress regarding their discontent with the...
Atiku picks 11 states, Tinubu 10 as INEC gives breakdown of candidates’ performance The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given a breakdown of the results...
The Senate was thrown into a rowdy session on Tuesday as members deliberated on the shoddy manner the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has conducted the...
THE much vaunted presidential election of 2023 has come and … it is going, and by the time you read this it could have gone. But...
CLAIM: A video is circulating on social media, showing gun-wielding men shooting at armless persons. Many who have posted the pictures claim that they are working...
Presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has defeated the incumbent Senate President, Ahmad Lawan in Yobe State in the presidential...
The Nigeria Police Force has called on presidential candidates in the country to caution their party spokespersons and supporters against making inciting comments and statements as...
As Nigerians went to the polls to elect President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor, and National Assembly members, several factors which are not alien to the country’s electoral...
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has described Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections as the most peaceful and best-organised elections he had witnessed in...
Ripples Nigeria brings you updates of all the social media trends and reactions as Nigerians go to the polls on Saturday, February 25, 2023, to choose...
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso, has bemoaned the stressful process involved in voting. Kwankwaso made this observation while speaking...
Scores of voters in Lagos State have expressed dismay over the omission of the Labour Party (LP) logo, its on some ballot papers in some Polling...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to politicians to ensure a very peaceful process as evidenced in the signed pledge of the Peace Committee. He stated...
As the more anticipated 2023 elections commence today across the country, there is palpable anxiety among Nigerians who will be going out yet again to determine...
The long awaited day has come for Nigerians to go to the polls to elect a new president who will pilot the affairs of the nation...
The European Union Election Observation Mission to Nigeria has condemned the recent cases of violence in the country. The EU team’s statement followed the assassination of...
The Lagos State University (LASU) has eventually taken the decision to suspend its ongoing second-semester examinations amid the 2023 general elections. Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education,...
A few hours to the 2023 general elections, former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has said there was no 100 percent assurances...
We often assume most revered leaders or even notable personalities in human history are men and women with zero faults, but history has proven otherwise. These...
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has deployed aerial surveillance in order to ensure a hitch-free elections on Saturday, in Lagos State. This was disclosed...
Ecobank Plc and four other banks have announced adjustments in the operation hours ahead of the general elections. In separate emails to their customers, the banks...
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Katsina State for an onward trip to Daura, his country home, ahead of Saturday’s presidential election in the country. The...
Outlawed Igbo secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has once again, declared that it has not called for a sit-at-home on election days or a...
The Diplomatic Missions of the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Japan, Norway and Canada in Nigeria, have further emphasized the need for a peaceful election in...
Ahead of the presidential and national assembly elections on Saturday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started moving sensitive materials from the Central Bank of...
The Adamawa State Police Command has announced a ban on vigilantes, hunters, Civilian JTF and other local security groups from the coming elections. The police command...
Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has claimed that over 200,000 corps members have been deployed as INEC ad-hoc staff...
It is just a few hours to the 2023 general elections and the leading candidates have been identified as Peter Obi, Bola Tinubu, and Atiku Abubakar....
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other stakeholders to ensure credible conduct of the country’s general elections. Jonathan...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, on Tuesday expressed concern at the uncertainty surrounding next Saturday’s election. Falana, who featured in a programme on Arise...
